The court book of Mende and the secular lordship of the bishop : recollecting the past in thirteenth-century Gévaudan / Jan K. Bulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulman, Jan K.

Contributor:

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Diocese of Mende (France)--History--To 1500.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church. Diocese of Mende (France).

Court records--France--Mende--History--To 1500.

Court records.

Church and state--France--Gévaudan--History--To 1500.

Church and state.

History.

Gévaudan (France)--Politics and government.

Gévaudan (France).

France--History--13th century.

France.

France--Gévaudan.

France--Mende.

Physical Description:

xii, 179 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2008]

Summary:

Control of written records was essential to sustaining memory, and the bishop [of Mende] demonstrated his lordship by organizing and managing the information that documented his hegemony. Public authority lay in the episcopal archives. Control over the information in archives, the gathering, unifying, and classifying of information into a single corpus or system, rested with the social and political authority ... The organization of archives had the effect of institutionalizing authority and law in written documentation. Therefore, the court book and the other books, which no doubt existed, pinpointed the locus of power and authority.

Contents:

Map of the Gevaudan xiv

1 The Gevaudan to about 1200: Laying the Foundations of Remembrance 14

2 The Course of Secular Lordship 28

3 The Court Book and the Bishop's Court 43

4 The Memoire relatif au pareage and Historical Memory 70.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-171) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.

ISBN:

9780802093370

080209337X

OCLC:

181078274